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Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

Yahoo! developers redesigned their instant messaging (IM) program in 2010 with a host of new features, including video chat and conferencing, social media integration and PC to telephone calls -- also ...

The announcement comes just six months after Yahoo and AOL parent company Oath discontinued AIM. If you're interested in downloading your Yahoo Messenger chat history, be sure to do that soon. I'm ...

One of the web's very first messaging tools is being shut down next month — Yahoo Messenger will be discontinued on July 17. Yahoo made the announcement early on Friday. As the web has evolved, the ...